Hotlinking images

When someone hotlinks images from my sites, is there any way that I can use that to my advantage ?

 

put a link on the image

 

You can stick watermarks on your images -> the that's free advertisement for you?

 

Thanks, I can do that, but is there anyway I can redirect, put pop-ups or anything else in that direction ? Like making a file that have the same name as the .jpg that does stuff ?

 

You can serve a different image (billboard) to hotlinkers.

 

Great.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?mysite\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/nohotlink.jpe [L]

Can I replace the file nohotlink.jpe with a html file ?

 

this is good but will this effect googlebot or the other search engines to crawl my site or effect to my serp results

 

Good point.

Here is the code for blocking specific urls.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?myspace\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?blogspot\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?livejournal\.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/nohotlink.jpe [L]

 

a simple url or something in your pics, is a great option actually! people will use it, and your site will start getting popular!

 

Will they bother to actually type the url when the pic is not clickable ?